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[normanack]

Thanks Bee! ok ok I'll do my own research. I was just over here and figured I'd ask all you smart chicken people

Quite honestly I don't think it's an issue of not knowing how to google, or of asking on a board vs. googling -- I think it's a new research habit that takes awhile to get ingrained. No fault, etc.

My mom still writes to me asking if I've ever heard of thus and such, and when I say, "why don't you google it?" she says, "oh yeah! I knew that!"

And when I can't figure something simple out on the computer, something that I'm quite capable of but it's just not (forgive me) computing, my kids look at me and say, "How can you not know how to do that?"

We all do know these things, but they are not yet habit in a world that is moving ever faster. We all just need a little time.

 

[Beekissed]

So some of you might remember that 2 of my hens got sour crop a week or so into the FF. A friend of mine started FF with her girls and emailed me saying help one got sour crop!!! She asked what method I used to cure my hens. I told her I had removed food from the hen and given her about 3 Ccs of red wine. I told her to feel the hens crop in the morning and if it hadn't gone down to give her more wine. Well she emailed me back shocked that it worked. She said her husband was convinced she was just trying to get the hen drunk!!! I found this buried in a thread about vomiting your hens, using monistat etc etc. I thought I'd give it a try as it was natural.... Well now we have 2 successful red wine sour crop eliminator test cases. The key is withholding the food so that you starve the yeast infection!!! Red wine alone won't do it.... I made that mistake the first dose as I missed that step in the instructions.

Just thought this might be a useful tip to tuck away.... Hopefully nobody else will have this problem .

Excellent info! I've never had sour crop in any of my flocks so I would not know how to eliminate it other than to cull that bird so that I won't have to address this defect. I think some breeds are more prone to it having sour crops? BO and Wyandottoes seem to be popular breeds for this malady...might be due to overeating, not sure. Could be why I never have this in my flocks, as I cull all the overeaters and underachievers in their first year.

 

[Leahs Mom]

So some of you might remember that 2 of my hens got sour crop a week or so into the FF. A friend of mine started FF with her girls and emailed me saying help one got sour crop!!! She asked what method I used to cure my hens. I told her I had removed food from the hen and given her about 3 Ccs of red wine. I told her to feel the hens crop in the morning and if it hadn't gone down to give her more wine. Well she emailed me back shocked that it worked. She said her husband was convinced she was just trying to get the hen drunk!!! I found this buried in a thread about vomiting your hens, using monistat etc etc. I thought I'd give it a try as it was natural.... Well now we have 2 successful red wine sour crop eliminator test cases. The key is withholding the food so that you starve the yeast infection!!! Red wine alone won't do it.... I made that mistake the first dose as I missed that step in the instructions.

Just thought this might be a useful tip to tuck away.... Hopefully nobody else will have this problem .

I'm curious about your ff. Did either of you put baker's yeast in the feed?

 

[texasmomma]

Tea tree oil should be used with another carrier oil so that it doesn't cause a burning sensation.

I've also successfully used clove oil with a tad bit of carrier oil (we use olive here but many use almond) to treat babies who are teething. I am thinking it would also help to numb up a chicken foot for a bumblefoot surgery, though I've never tried it. Haven't had to do the surgery here.

I use a lot of arnica both internally and externally, in my home. I would give a chicken a pellet or two of arnica to help with any bruising, if I were doing a surgery.

 

[Beekissed]

Quite honestly I don't think it's an issue of not knowing how to google, or of asking on a board vs. googling -- I think it's a new research habit that takes awhile to get ingrained. No fault, etc.

My mom still writes to me asking if I've ever heard of thus and such, and when I say, "why don't you google it?" she says, "oh yeah! I knew that!"

And when I can't figure something simple out on the computer, something that I'm quite capable of but it's just not (forgive me) computing, my kids look at me and say, "How can you not know how to do that?"

We all do know these things, but they are not yet habit in a world that is moving ever faster. We all just need a little time.

The Bat will come up to me and say, "I want you to ask the computer something....".

I think this is so cute and so indicative of our generation that we have started thinking of the computer as a person who might have the answer if we do not. It's really the only "new" technology we have in this house....still have a land line phone, don't have a TV connected to anything but a DVD/VCR player, have very few movies on hand but a whole bookcase full of books, still heat with wood heat, still have an outhouse, etc.

 

[aaggjg]

I'm curious about your ff.  Did either of you put baker's yeast in the feed?

No just good old fashion ACV & water.

 

[normanack]

The Bat will come up to me and say, "I want you to ask the computer something....".

I think this is so cute and so indicative of our generation that we have started thinking of the computer as a person who might have the answer if we do not.

One of these days I'm going to start talking to my appliances the way people talk to their cell phones (Apple's Siri, etc.) that you see on commercials. I'll ask the fridge, "Is there any cheese left?" or "Who ate the cookie dough?" or "How long since I cleaned you? Wait, don't answer that. I don't want to know."

 

[aaggjg]

I'm curious about your ff.  Did either of you put baker's yeast in the feed?

Ps never heard of people using brewers yeast .... I would think that would be problematic.

 

[Beekissed]

No so just good old fashion ACV & water.

Weird! Do you think it was more a side effect of hogging down on the new feed type rather than from the feed itself? I've heard reports of folks stating the chickens really wolf the FF down the first time they start feeding it to them. Maybe denying them the food was the real kicker and not the use of the wine, as when you used the wine without denying the food it had no good result?

You would think the yeasts in the FF would not be the type to "cause" a yeast infection...different yeast types entirely that cause these overgrowths and inflammations.

 

[galanie]

I'm curious about your ff.  Did either of you put baker's yeast in the feed?

Ps never heard of people using brewers yeast .... I would think that would be problematic.

Brewer's yeast isn't the same as Baker's yeast. Some suspect that yeast used in baking wouldn't be good, but others use it and seem happy.